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elus anum inseruit. Postea Nih'a^ga" nunc vigilans ano dixit: "Te 

 moveri, si quis appropinquaret, meque excitare iussi." Anum ut poena 

 afficeret. ei facem ex igni detractam admovit. Sed fax ita ussit itaque 

 momordit ut anum ad ventum porrigeret si modo refrigerari posset. 

 Cum se purgaret, excrementum leporum parvorum speciem praebuit ; 

 quos identidem to^a impedire conatus est. Dum leporibus operam dat, 

 togam excremento inquinavit ; quam cum in rupe posuisset : "Hanc," 

 inquit, "tibi dabo." Sed postremo ad rupis latus a vento aversum per- 

 venit ; tum rursus ei bene oluit. So he went and took it back. Then 

 the rock pursued him. As he ran before it, he said : "I wish there were 

 a hole for me to enter." But there was nothing that he could enter. 

 At last the rock overtook him, and rolling upon his back, lay on him. 

 Then Nih'a^ga" called to the birds: "My friend, come here; help me!" 

 After a while the bull-bat came. He swooped down towards the rock, 

 crepuit, and shot a piece of the rock off. Thus he continued to do 

 until the rock was broken and Niha'^qa" was free. Nih'a"ga° said to 

 him : "Come here, my friend, I want to look at you." The bull-bat came 

 to him. "Why did you do this? 1 did not tell you to do it. I was very 

 comfortable under the rock," he said to him. He pulled and spread the 

 bull-bat's mouth out wide, so that the bull-bat has the largest mouth of 

 the birds.^ — K. 



34. — Nih'a^^'ca'^ pursued by the Rolling Stone.^ 



Nih'a"9a" was going down stream. A lump of pemmican came 

 floating down. Nih'a"(;a'* ran ahead, went into the river, and asked the 

 pemmican : "How much may I bite off you?" "Bite off a very little," 

 the pemmican told him. Nih'a°(;a" took his bite, went out of the river, 

 and ran on down ahead of the pemmican. There he went into the river, 

 and when it came floating down, asked it again : "How much of you 

 may I bite off?" '"A very little," it said. Nih'a"(;a° took a large bite, 

 and not having had enough then, ran down along the stream a distance. 

 Wh&n the pemmican came, he asked it again, and again it told him : 

 "A very little." Nevertheless he tcok a large bite. Then he ran a long 

 way ahead and waited for it to come floating. "How much may I bite 

 off you?" he asked. This time," when he went to take his bite, he swal- 

 lowed all there was left of it. "Well, what luck you always have, 

 Nih'a"9a"!" he said.* Then he started back. Noctu, dum somno 



' Cf. No. 34. also 21. The incident with the rabbit is found among the Gros Ventres. Cf. also 

 J. O. Dorsey, Contr. N. A. Ethn., VI, 38. 

 » Informant A; text. 



* The fourth time. 



* The Gros Ventre have a similar tale. 



